State designates San Benito’s Stonewall Jackson Hotel as historical landmark
SAN BENITO — Decades after standing as the city's most cherished architectural treasure, the former Stonewall Jackson Hotel has been christened a Texas historical landmark.
Texas Southmost College architecture students present Buena Vida ideas
On Friday, 14 second-year students from the Texas Southmost College associate’s architecture program presented their designs for a new Buena Vida housing development to replace the original one at Ringgold and East 14th streets in Brownsville.
Harlingen launching kayak project at McCullough Park
HARLINGEN — Winding across some of the city's most rugged stretches of Tamaulipan thorn forest, the Arroyo Colorado is making way for Harlingen's first kayak launch.
No one agrees on what to call the natatorium in Pharr
What's the name of that big fancy natatorium right off the expressway in Pharr?
Harlingen’s Tony Butler project costs jumping to $5.5 million
HARLINGEN — After more than five years of planning and delays, officials are signing a contract launching a $5.5 million project aimed at transforming the Tony Butler Golf Course to help pull it out of a 10-year hole.
Hidalgo County DA Palacios making plea deals to mitigate jail overcrowding
In the months since winning the election for district attorney, Toribio “Terry” Palacios has been working to fulfill his campaign promises and has been gradually seeing results.
UTRGV art students raise space, facility concerns
Energized by the unveiling of renderings for the $45 million Vaqueros Performance Center to house UTRGV’s Division I football program, one part of $80 million in construction projects being completed by UTRGV Athletics, art and design students at the UTRGV Brownsville campus are raising long-time concerns with the art program’s space and facilities.
A rising tide, RGV boys soccer continues to shine at highest level in Texas
GEORGETOWN — All it took was that first one.
Audit probes BPUB’s Tenaska details; revenue, expenditures reviewed in latest report
First came the forensic analysis by Alabama-based public accounting firm Carr, Riggs & Ingram (CRI) into the Brownsville Public Utility Board's failed Tenaska Brownsville Generating Station project, which concluded that BPUB senior management hyped the project long after it was no longer financially feasible.
